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White Collar Criminal Defense
Our White Collar Criminal Defense Group is part of our Business Litigation Group, but prevention of white collar crime and effective representation of charges made against our clients have become so important that it deserves separate discussion.
White collar crimes are generally crimes that involve unlawful but non-violent conduct on the part of organizations or individuals. These crimes include theft, fraud, and other violations of trust related to the offender's business or occupation, such as embezzlement, bribery, racketeering, anti-trust violations, price-fixing, stock manipulation, and insider trading. Relatively recently, environmental crimes have been added to the list. State and federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) laws, which are designed to facilitate investigation, control, and prosecution of organized crime, particularly crimes involving interstate or foreign commerce, are often used to prosecute white collar crimes.
Through our White Collar Criminal Defense Group, we work with individuals and representatives of various business organizations to do three key things: first, we work with them to develop policies, compliance programs, and training programs, in hopes of preventing any form or any suggestion of white collar crime; second, we work with them to prepare or to determine the kind of help required by those who are not the subjects of criminal investigation but are witnesses to and/or victims of an alleged crime; and third, we work with the subjects of criminal investigations throughout both the investigation and any resulting negotiations or litigation in state or federal trial or appellate courts.
White collar criminal investigations can be so far-reaching and so time-consuming that they can paralyze not only the subjects of investigation but individuals and representatives of organizations who have little or nothing to contribute to the investigation. For this reason, we are increasingly being asked to help clients develop prevention strategies to reduce their risks of being involved, however tangentially, in lengthy and expensive investigations.
WHITE COLLAR CRIMINAL DEFENSE SERVICES:
- Business Crimes
- Civil RICO
- Commercial Crimes
- Environmental Criminal Defense
- Healthcare Fraud
- Money Laundering
- White Collar Criminal Defense
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Primary Contact:
Thomas W. Farlow
Biography
317-237-3844
tfarlow@locke.com
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